sewing machine

See also: sewing-machine

English

the action in a sewing machine

a typical sewing machine representative of those from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries

a typical sewing machine representative of those from the late 20th century through today

Alternative forms

• sewing-machine (dated)

Pronunciation

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Noun

sewing machine (plural sewing machines)

2. Any mechanical or electromechanical device used to stitch cloth or other material; normally uses two threads to form lock stitches.

   Hypernym: machine

Derived terms

• sewing-machine music

Translations

device

• Afrikaans: naaimasjien
• Albanian: makinë qepëse f
• Amharic: መኪና (mäkina), ልብስ ስፌት መኪና (ləbs səfet mäkina)
• Arabic: مَاكِينَة خِيَاطَة f (makīnat ḵiyāṭa)

  Egyptian Arabic: مكنة خياطة f (makanet ḵeyaṭa)

• Armenian: կարի մեքենա (hy) (kari mekʻena)
• Azerbaijani: tikiş maşını
• Belarusian: шве́йная машы́на f (švjéjnaja mašýna)
• Bulgarian: ше́вна маши́на f (šévna mašína)
• Burmese: အပ်ချုပ်စက် (my) (aphkyupcak), စက်ခေါင်း (my) (cakhkaung:)
• Catalan: màquina de cosir (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎦᏰᏫᏒᎥᏍᎩ (gayewisvvsgi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 衣車 / 衣车 (ji¹ ce¹)

  Dungan: фынйишонди чәзы (fɨnyišondi čəzɨ)

  Hakka: 米信 (mì-sín)

  Hokkien: 針車 / 针车 (chiam-chhia), 車仔 / 车仔 (chhia-á), 米信 (mi-sín) (Taiwan), 馬擎仔 / 马擎仔 (má-kìn-á, má-kín-á) (Xiamen), 裁縫車 / 裁缝车 (chhâi-hông-chhia, châi-hông-chhia) (Taiwan)

  Mandarin: 縫紉機 / 缝纫机 (zh) (féngrènjī)

• Czech: šicí stroj m
• Danish: symaskine (da) c
• Dutch: naaimachine (nl) f
• Esperanto: kudromaŝino (eo)
• Estonian: õmblusmasin (et)
• Faroese: seymimaskina f
• Finnish: ompelukone (fi)
• French: machine à coudre (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: naaimasine

• Galician: máquina de coser (gl) f
• Georgian: საკევრავი მანქანა (saḳevravi mankana)
• German: Nähmaschine (de) f
• Greek: ραπτομηχανή (el) f (raptomichaní)
• Hebrew: מכונת תפירה f (mekhonát tfirá)
• Hindi: सिलाई मशीन m (silāī maśīn)
• Hungarian: varrógép (hu)
• Icelandic: saumavél f
• Indonesian: mesin jahit (id)
• Ingrian: ompelosmašina
• Irish: inneall fuála m
• Italian: macchina da cucire f, macchina per cucire f
• Japanese: ミシン (ja) (mishin), 裁縫機械 (さいほうきかい, saihō kikai)
• Kazakh: тігін машинасы (tıgın maşinasy)
• Khmer: យន្តដេរ (yŭən dee), ម៉ាស៊ីនដេរ (maasɨn dee)
• Korean: 재봉틀 (ko) (jaebongteul), 미싱 (ko) (mising)
• Lao: ຈັກຫຍິບ (lo) (chak nyip), ຈັກຫຍິບເຄື່ອງ (chak nyip khư̄ang)
• Latvian: šujmašīna f
• Lithuanian: siuvamoji mašina f
• Lü: ᦈᧅᦵᦊᧇᦷᦆ (ṫsakẏebxo)
• Luxembourgish: Bitzmaschinn f
• Macedonian: машина за шиење f (mašina za šienje)
• Malay: mesin jahit
• Norman: machinne à couôtre f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: symaskin (no) m

  Nynorsk: symaskin m or f

• Persian:

  Dari: مَاشِینِ خَیَاطِی (māšīn-i xayātī)

  Iranian Persian: چَرْخِ خَیاطی (čarx-e xayâti)

• Polish: maszyna do szycia (pl) f
• Portuguese: máquina de costura f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਸਿਲਾਈ ਮਸ਼ੀਨ (pa) f (silāī maśīn)

• Romanian: mașină de cusut (ro) f
• Russian: шве́йная маши́нка f (švéjnaja mašínka), шве́йная маши́на (ru) f (švéjnaja mašína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шиваћа машина f

  Latin: šivaća mašina f

• Slovak: šijací stroj m
• Slovene: šivalni stroj (sl) m
• Somali: harqaan
• Spanish: máquina de coser f, cosedora f, yuki m (Honduras)
• Swahili: cherehani (sw)
• Swedish: symaskin (sv)
• Tagalog: makinang panahi, makina
• Tajik: мошини дӯзандагӣ (mošin-i düzandagi)
• Thai: จักร (th) (jàk), จักรเย็บผ้า (jàk-yép-pâa), จักรเย็บ (jàk-yép)
• Tok Pisin: masin bilong samap, masin samap
• Turkish: dikiş makinesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: шве́йна маши́на f (švéjna mašýna)
• Uyghur: تىكىش ماشىنىسى (tikish mashinisi)
• Uzbek: bichish mashinasi
• Vietnamese: máy may (vi), máy khâu (vi)
• Volapük: nägacin (vo)
• Welsh: peiriant gwnïo m
• Yiddish: ניימאַשין f (neymashin)
• Zhuang: cibuh, aencibuh